Art Institute of Chicago
Inlay Depicting the Face of a King
Egyptian
- Date
- Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)
- Medium
- Glass
- Culture
- Egypt
- Department
- Arts of Africa
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Figures of the king or the gods made of pieces of brightly colored glass appeared about 1350 B.C. and continued to be made into the Ptolemaic period. The color follows the tradition in Egyptian art of depicting the skin of men as red.
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